WOMAN DIES AFTER CARLSBAD POLICE FIND HER IN CAR BLEEDING FROM THE CHEST

Carlsbad police are investigating the death of a woman found Friday in a car in a parking lot in a commercial district.

Police received a 911 call about 4:25 p.m. that a woman in the car, near Van Allen Way and Faraday Avenue, was bleeding from the chest, police Lt. Paul Mendes said.

Officers and fire personnel responded. The woman was declared dead at the scene.

The death is considered suspicious, Mendes said.

No other details, including the woman’s name, were yet released.

Susan Shroder • U-T

Cars damaged in rock-throwing incidents; 3 juveniles detained

lakeside

Three Lakeside juveniles have been identified as suspects in two incidents of throwing rocks at moving vehicles this week, including one that resulted in damage to a San Diego Police Department patrol car, the California Highway Patrol said Friday.

The boys were questioned and released to their parents, and the case has been submitted to the juvenile division of the District Attorney’s Office for review, CHP Officer C. Aguerre ﻿said.

Both incidents occurred on Ashwood Street near Mapleview Street near El Capitan High School.

The first was reported about 5 p.m. Wednesday, and the second between 5 and 7 p.m. Thursday, Aguerre said.

A total of four vehicles, including the patrol car, were hit by rocks about the size of a golf ball, Aguerre said. One vehicle was not damaged. Another had a chip in a passenger-side window and one had a dent and scratch on a left front fender.

The patrol car, occupied by a San Diego police canine officer who was heading home, had a golf ball-size hole in the front windshield.

No one in the vehicles was hurt.

The boys told authorities that they did not realize one of the vehicles was a police car until it stopped, Aguerre said.

The rocks were apparently thrown from a nearby hill, Aguerre said.

Susan Shroder • U-T

Potentially explosive chemical at UCSD lab forces evacuation

La Jolla

Hazardous materials crews and a bomb squad destroyed a test tube containing an explosive chemical in a University of California San Diego laboratory building Friday.

No one was injured and university officials said no one in the area was in danger.

However, they evacuated Urey Hall, the lab building off South Scholars Drive and La Jolla Shores Drive, and cordoned off the building’s perimeter for nearly five hours.

The incident began about 7 a.m., when a physics graduate student reported the chemical to campus environmental health and safety officers, said Kim McDonald, campus spokesman.

The student had worked Thursday night with an industrial solvent called Decalin during a light-scattering experiment in the basement of the seven-story building. As she was trying to figure out how to dispose of the chemical, which was in a test tube, she read that it becomes unstable and explosive when exposed to air, McDonald said.

Campus safety officials evaluated the situation and called in city and county hazardous materials crews and the bomb squad about 8:30 a.m.

“They felt the best way to handle it was to remove it from the building and take a blasting cap and destroy the chemical,” McDonald said.

That was done about 12:15 p.m. on a landing just outside the basement, he said. Students were allowed back into the building afterward.

Pauline Repard • U-T

Clairemont condo resident helped from home after fire starts in wall

San Diego

A Clairemont condominium resident was helped from his home Friday morning when a fire broke out in a wall, a fire dispatcher said.

Firefighters went to the complex on Balboa Avenue near Genesee Avenue about 9:20 a.m. and saw light smoke coming from the ground-floor unit, a San Diego Fire-Rescue Department dispatcher said.

One person who called 911 told dispatchers that an elderly man who lives in the condo had evacuated, then went back inside until the caller brought him out again. Neither person was injured.

The fire was burning in a wall behind the fireplace, the dispatcher said. Firefighters got the flames knocked down by about 9:40 a.m., then used fans to blow the smoke out of the residence.

Damage was estimated at $13,000.

Pauline Repard • U-T

Motorcyclist killed after he loses control of bike, slides into SUV

east county

A 45-year-old motorcyclist was killed Friday near Dehesa after he lost control of his bike on a curve and slid into an SUV.